Sacha Baron Cohen slams Facebook as a home for conspiracy theories

October 8, 2020 2020 election, deep state

Archived 6 years ago from Business Insider
Sacha Baron Cohen slams Facebook as a home for conspiracy theories

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen wrote an op-ed for Time condemning social media platforms for allowing misinformation to spread, and he singled out Facebook in particular. The “Borat” actor, who has come out hard against Facebook before, said the company is a “dutiful ally” to President Donald Trump and …

Kamala Harris Says She Won’t Take Trump’s Vaccine, But Is Not Anti-Vax

COVID-19

October 7, 2020 2020 election, antivax, fauci, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The Daily Dot
Kamala Harris Says She Won’t Take Trump’s Vaccine, But Is Not Anti-Vax

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she would not take a coronavirus vaccine if it was only approved by President Donald Trump at the vice presidential debate on Tuesday. Advertisement Hide The right has tried to label Harris as an anti-vaxer and as someone who does not believe in the science behind …

Time to End COVID Lockdowns and Mask Mandates

COVID-19

October 2, 2020 2020 election, cdc

Archived 6 years ago from American Thinker
Time to End COVID Lockdowns and Mask Mandates

Draconian lockdowns invoked by governmental fiat with little basis in science are nonsensical and unconstitutional. I live in Washington state and I have a mustache. I went to my barbershop when they were first allowed to open on a limited basis and got a haircut and mustache trim. Last week, they …

Proud Boys are a dangerous ‘white supremacist’ group say US agencies

Conspiracy

October 1, 2020 2020 election, covid19, nazi

Archived 6 years ago from The Guardian
Proud Boys are a dangerous ‘white supremacist’ group say US agencies

The far-right Proud Boys group whom Donald Trump told to “stand by” during this week’s presidential debate is seen as a dangerous organization by law enforcement, according to leaked assessments of the organization from federal, state and local agencies. Trump’s refusal to condemn white …

The U.S. Exported QAnon to Australia and New Zealand. Now It’s Creeping Into COVID-19 Lockdown Protests

Conspiracy

September 30, 2020 2020 election, antivax, bill gates, deep state, qanon

Archived 6 years ago from TIME
The U.S. Exported QAnon to Australia and New Zealand. Now It’s Creeping Into COVID-19 Lockdown Protests

Like most people, Jess spent a lot of time online during weeks of lockdown earlier this year. But the 36-year-old Australian wasn’t focused so much on playing Animal Crossing or watching Netflix. Instead, she found herself diving ever deeper into the Internet for information about QAnon. Jess, who …

Facebook removes Trump campaign ads with misleading claims about refugees

Vaccines

September 30, 2020 2020 election, big tech, china, covid19, nazi, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The Guardian
Facebook removes Trump campaign ads with misleading claims about refugees

Facebook has removed a number of ads from the Trump campaign for making misleading and inaccurate claims about Covid-19 and immigration. On Wednesday the social media platform took down the Trump-sponsored advertisements which claimed, without evidence, that accepting refugees would increase …

Is Facebook Bad for Society? New Insights on the Company’s Approach Raise Important Questions

Conspiracy

September 26, 2020 2020 election, antivax, fauci

Archived 6 years ago from Social Media Today
Is Facebook Bad for Society? New Insights on the Company’s Approach Raise Important Questions

Is Facebook a positive or negative influence on society – and does the company, or indeed anybody in a position to enact any type of change, actually care either way? This question has been posed by many research reports and academic analyses over the years, but seemingly, the broader populous, at …

QAnon

September 26, 2020 2020 election, marjorie taylor greene

Archived 6 years ago from Minneapolis Star Tribune
GOP lawmaker speaks out against QAnon supporters on ballot

With the news that at least a half dozen GOP state legislative candidates have expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, one senior Republican lawmaker issued a full-throated call for their endorsements to be rescinded. State Rep. Patrick Garofalo, R-Farmington, in a post on Twitter, …

Conspiracy

September 24, 2020 2020 election, deep state, fauci, illuminati

Archived 6 years ago from TIME
An Illuminati Conspiracy Theory Captured American Imaginations in the Nation’s Earliest Days—And Offers a Lesson for Now

In the final weeks before the 2020 election, the outsize role of conspiracy theories in American politics has become unmistakable. For some Trump supporters in particular, campaign-season news is filtered through the powerful idea that hidden forces are at work, that the “deep state”—a supposed …

QAnon

September 23, 2020 2020 election, adrenochrome, maga, marjorie taylor greene

Archived 6 years ago from LA Magazine
QAnon Isn’t Going Away, It’s Going to Congress

In the past few weeks, the cultish conspiracy movement known as QAnon has come under increasing scrutiny over its outlandish myths about everything from COVID-19 vaccines to satanic pedophile rings. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have cracked down on the fast-growing movement, but the effort …

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